Keith BlackHe was 17 years old when he won the Westinghouse Award
in science. He was born and raised in a family where he can tell
you, his father was a prominent educator in a segregated school
in Alabama. And so they had to take him to Tuskegee where there
was the only hospital where black women could deliver babies.
He is now one of the world's most talented brain surgeons known
for working with the most difficult brain tumors. Dr. Keith Black,
along with only a handful of other, averages more than 250 such
operations a year. That's an average of 5 every week. And his
patients come not only from the United States, but from around
the world.